Name: Bethany Wangler

In this activity, you will assess your technology competency as an educator and student, identify areas of strength and needed improvement, and consider your students’ technology competency. For
each element below, choose the rating that best characterizes your practice.
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Recognizes importance and willing to Explores and develops knowledge and Applies knowledge and skills. Integrates knowledge and skills. Contributes to knowledge base through
develop awareness. Demonstrates skills. Demonstrates transitional Demonstrates connected knowledge and Demonstrates integrated knowledge and design of technology-enhanced
beginning knowledge and skills. Rarely knowledge and skills. Occasionally skills. Regularly implements effective skills from wide range of resources across teacher/learning. Continuously
implements technology-enhanced implements technology-enhanced technology-enhanced teacher/learning. standards. Continuously implements implements innovative technology-
teacher/learning. teacher/learning. technology-enhanced teacher/learning. enhanced teacher and learning.

ISTE Standards for Educators

1. EDUCATOR AS LEARNER: I continually improve my practice by learning from others and exploring promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.
1a. I set professional learning goals; explore and apply pedagogical approaches made possible by technology; and reflect on my effectiveness. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

1b. I pursue professional interests by creating and actively participating in local and global learning networks. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

1c. I stay current with research that supports improved student learning outcomes, including findings from the learning sciences. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

2. EDUCATOR AS LEADER: I seek out opportunities for leadership to support student empowerment and success and to improve teaching and learning.
1a. I shape, advance and accelerate a shared vision for empowered learning with technology by engaging with education stakeholders. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

2b. I advocate for equitable access to educational technology, digital content and learning opportunities to meet the diverse needs of all EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING
students.
2c. I model for colleagues the identification, exploration, evaluation, curation and adoption of new digital resources and tools for learning. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

3. EDUCATOR AS CITIZEN: I inspire students to positively contribute to and responsibly participate in the digital world.
3a. I create experiences for learners to make positive, socially responsible contributions and exhibit empathetic behavior online that build EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING
relationships and community.
3b. I establish a learning culture that promotes critical examination of online resources and fosters digital literacy and media fluency. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

3c. I mentor students in safe, legal and ethical practices with digital tools and the protection of intellectual rights and property. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

3d. I model and promote management of personal data and digital identity and protect student data privacy. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

4. EDUCATOR AS COLLABORATOR: I dedicate time to collaborate with colleagues and students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems.
4a. I dedicate planning time to collaborate with colleagues to create authentic learning experiences that leverage technology. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

4b. I collaborate and co-learn with students to discover and use new digital resources and diagnose and troubleshoot technology issues. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

4c. I use collaborative tools to expand students' authentic, real-world learning experiences by engaging virtually with experts, teams and
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students, locally and globally.
4d. I demonstrate cultural competency when communicating with students, parents and colleagues and interact with them as co- EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING
collaborators in student learning.
5: EDUCATOR AS DESIGNER: I design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability.
5a. I use technology to create adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING
differences and needs.
5b. I design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING
learning.
5c. I explore and apply instructional design principles to create innovative digital learning environments that engage and support learning. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

6: EDUCATOR AS FACILITATOR: I facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the ISTE Standards for Students.
6a. I foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in both independent and group settings. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

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6b. I manage use of technology and student learning strategies in digital platforms, virtual environments, hands-on makerspaces or in the EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING
field.
6c. I create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design process and computational thinking to solve problems. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

6d. I model and nurture creativity and creative expression to communicate ideas, knowledge or connections. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

7: EDUCATOR AS ANALYST: I understand and use data to drive their instruction and support students in achieving their learning goals.
7a. I provide alternative ways for students to demonstrate competency and reflect on their learning using technology. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

7b. I use technology to design and implement a variety of formative and summative assessments that accommodate learner needs, provide EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING
timely feedback to students and inform instruction.
7c. I use assessment data to guide progress and communicate with students, parents, and education stakeholders to build student self-
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direction.

ISTE Standards for Students

1. EMPOWERED LEARNER: As a student, I leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving, and demonstrating competency in learning goals.
1a. I articulate and set personal learning goals; develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them; and reflect on the learning process
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itself to improve learning outcomes.
1b. I build networks and customize my learning environments in ways that support the learning process. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

1c. I use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves my practice and to demonstrate learning in a variety of ways. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

1d. I understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations; demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING
technologies; and am able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
2. DIGITAL CITIZEN: As a student, I recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and act and model in ways that are safe,
legal and ethical.
2a. I cultivate and manage my digital identity and reputation and am aware of the permanence of my actions in the digital world. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

2b. I engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked
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devices.
2c. I demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

2d. I manage my personal data to maintain digital privacy and security and am aware of data-collection technology used to track my online
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navigation.
3. KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTOR: As a student, I critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning
experiences for myself and others.
3a. I plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for my intellectual or creative pursuits. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

3b. I evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance of information, media, data or other resources. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

3c. I curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate
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meaningful connections or conclusions.
3d. I build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING
solutions.
4. INNOVATIVE DESIGNER: As a student, I use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
4a. I use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

4b. I select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

4c. I develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

4d. I exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

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5. COMPUTATIONAL THINKER: As a student, I develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test
solutions.
5a. I formulate problem definitions suited for technology-assisted methods such as data analysis, abstract models and algorithmic thinking in EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING
exploring and finding solutions.
5b. I collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-
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solving and decision-making.
5c. I break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING
facilitate problem-solving.
5d. I understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

6. CREATIVE COMMUNICATOR: As a student, I communicate clearly and express myself creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate
to their goals.
6a. I choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

6b. I create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

6c. I communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating/using digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

6d. I publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for my intended audiences. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

7. GLOBAL COLLABORATOR: As a student, I use digital tools to broaden my perspectives and enrich learning by collaborating with others in teams locally and globally.
7a. I use digital tools to connect with learners from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, engaging with them in ways that broaden mutual EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING
understanding and learning.
7b. I use collaborative technologies to work with others, including peers, experts or community members, to examine issues and problems EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING
from multiple viewpoints.
7c. I contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

7d. I explore local and global issues and use collaborative technologies to work with others to investigate solutions. EMERGING EXPLORING APPLYING INEGRATING INNOVATING

MY STRENGTHS MY AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT

Educator Standards with Example of Evidence Student Standards Educator Standards Student Standards
Summarize your practice by identifying the top three strengths and needed areas of improvement in each category. Copy and paste the text of the entire element.
Digital Citizen: As a
student, I recognize the
Example: I use SHEG's Educator as Collaborator: I Global Collaborator: As a
Educator as Citizen: I rights, responsibilities,
resources to teach digital dedicate time to student, I use digital tools
inspire students to and opportunities of
literacy and work with my collaborate with colleagues to broaden my
positively contribute to living, learning, and
students to help them and students to improve perspectives and enrich
and responsibly working in an
develop skills in practice, discover and learning by collaborating
participate in the digital interconnected digital
responsibly crediting share resources and ideas, with other teams locally
world. world, and act and model
others' work. and solve problems and globally.
in ways that are safe,
legal, and ethical.
Innovating Designer: As a
Educator as Designer: I Example: For English 11A, Educator as Learner: I Empowered Learner: As a
student, I use a variety of
design authentic, learner- I've provided a variety of technologies within a design
continually improve my student, I leverage
driven activities and texts and assignments, process to to identify and solve practice by learning from technology to to take an
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environments that ranging from classics to problems by creating new, others and exploring active role in choosing,
recognize and modern texts and useful, or imaginitive sollutions. promising practices that achieving, and
accommodate learner academic to career- leverage technology to demonstrating
variability. specific writing improve student learning. competency in learning
assessments. goals.
Example: I continually
Educator as Analyst: I Educator as Facilitator: I
analyze my students'
understand and use data facilitate learning with
work and adapt my
to drive their instruction technology to support
instruction based on their
and support students in student achievement of the
performance to better
achieving their learning ISTE standards for
support them in achieving
goals. students.
their learning goals.
MY STUDENTS’ STRENGTHS MY STUDENTS’ AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT
Review the student standards once more and identify two of the collective strengths and areas of improvement for your current students. This will help you plan your teacher inquiry.
1. Creative Communicator: As a student, I communicate clearly and express myself 1. Global Collaborator: As a student, I use digital tools to broaden my perspectives
creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats, and and enrich learning by collaborating with others in teams locally and globally.
digital media appropriate to their goals. 2. Computational Thinker: As a student, I develop and employ strategies for
2. Empowered Learner: As a student, I leverage technology to take an active role in understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of
choosing, achieving, and demonstrating competency in learning goals. technological methods to develop and test solutions..

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